{"title":"Potential therapeutic targets for Cryptococcus.","authors":"Jing Liu, Xiaozhuo Dong, Yemei Huang, Hengyu Deng, Yangyu Zhou, Enqi Zhao, Xuelei Zang, Ziqi Zhao, Xinying Xue","doi":"10.1093/mmy/myag015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cryptococcus is a deadly opportunistic pathogenic fungus that causes severe infections such as meningitis in immunocompromised patients. Current antifungal therapeutics face the problem of drug resistance and the limitation of high side effects, and there is an urgent need to develop new therapeutic strategies. The growth and pathogenicity of Cryptococcus depend on its complex metabolic network, and by interfering with the metabolic pathways of Cryptococcus, its virulence can be effectively reduced and the immune response of the host enhanced. This paper systematically summarizes the potential therapeutic targets of protein, sugar, lipid, and metal metabolism of Cryptococcus and their mechanisms of action, which provides theoretical support for the development of novel antifungal drugs and brings new hope to the growing problem of fungal infections.</p>","PeriodicalId":18586,"journal":{"name":"Medical mycology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical mycology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myag015","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFECTIOUS DISEASES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Cryptococcus is a deadly opportunistic pathogenic fungus that causes severe infections such as meningitis in immunocompromised patients. Current antifungal therapeutics face the problem of drug resistance and the limitation of high side effects, and there is an urgent need to develop new therapeutic strategies. The growth and pathogenicity of Cryptococcus depend on its complex metabolic network, and by interfering with the metabolic pathways of Cryptococcus, its virulence can be effectively reduced and the immune response of the host enhanced. This paper systematically summarizes the potential therapeutic targets of protein, sugar, lipid, and metal metabolism of Cryptococcus and their mechanisms of action, which provides theoretical support for the development of novel antifungal drugs and brings new hope to the growing problem of fungal infections.
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Medical Mycology is a peer-reviewed international journal that focuses on original and innovative basic and applied studies, as well as learned reviews on all aspects of medical, veterinary and environmental mycology as related to disease. The objective is to present the highest quality scientific reports from throughout the world on divergent topics. These topics include the phylogeny of fungal pathogens, epidemiology and public health mycology themes, new approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of mycoses including clinical trials and guidelines, pharmacology and antifungal susceptibilities, changes in taxonomy, description of new or unusual fungi associated with human or animal disease, immunology of fungal infections, vaccinology for prevention of fungal infections, pathogenesis and virulence, and the molecular biology of pathogenic fungi in vitro and in vivo, including genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics. Case reports are no longer accepted. In addition, studies of natural products showing inhibitory activity against pathogenic fungi are not accepted without chemical characterization and identification of the compounds responsible for the inhibitory activity.
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